We are pleased to announce that the University of New Hampshire's Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL) has recently joined the Network Test Automation Forum! UNH-IOL is a neutral, third-party laboratory dedicated to testing data networking technologies through industry collaboration. For some time now, NTAF has been looking to roll out its compliance mechanism, which is best delivered by a third-party for multiple reasons, and UNH-IOL is perfectly positioned to help guide NTAF in that effort. UNH-IOL is very experienced in this area,...
IOL News Articles
IoT, IPv6 Coming To The Connected Home
June 10, 2014
Every Fourth of July, my wife and I take our children to the beach for a week at my parents' condo. This year, my dad called me and asked what temperature I'd like the condo to be when we arrived.
Silicon Motion Licenses Mobiveil's UNEX NVM Express Controller to Accelerate SoC Design
June 3, 2014
MILPITAS, CA - Mobiveil, Inc, a fast growing supplier of silicon intellectual property (SIP), platforms and IP-enabled design services, today announced that Silicon Motion, a world leader in high performance, low-power semiconductor solutions to OEMs and other customers in the mobile storage and mobile communications markets, has licensed Mobiveil's UNEX NVM Express controller IP for system-on-chip (SOC) designs. This agreement gives silicon motion access to Mobiveil's highly configurable, UNH-IOL (University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab) certified IP. Mobiveil's leadership in...
IntelliProp SATA 6Gb/s Host Core Certified on Xilinx Kintex-7(R) FPGA
June 3, 2014
LONGMONT, CO--(Marketwired - June 03, 2014) - IntelliProp Inc announced today that their SATA 6Gb/s Host Intellectual Property (IP) Core has passed certification by the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) on a Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA. The IntelliProp SATA 6Gb/s Host IP core is the first SATA Host core to be certified by the UNH-IOL on the Xilinx Kintex-7 device.
ONF Road Rash Erica Johnson interview
May 15, 2014
Erica Johnson of (UNH IOL) discusses the ONF Testing Leadership Council's latest agenda, May 15, 2014.
Routing Consortium offers VRRPv3 Interoperability Testing
May 7, 2014
VRRPv3 specifies an election protocol that dynamically assigns responsibility for a virtual router to one of the VRRPv3 routers on a LAN. The VRRPv3 router controlling the IP address(es) associated with a virtual router is called the Master, and forwards packets transmitted to these IP addresses. The election process provides dynamic fail over in the forwarding responsibility should the Master become unavailable. This allows any of the virtual router IP addresses on the LAN to be used as the default...
UNH Lab Advances SDN
April 29, 2014
Erica Johnson, director of the UNH InterOperability Laboratory, explains how the non-profit test lab is working with organizations like the Open Networking Foundation and OpenDaylight to help usher in software-defined networking technologies with conformance and interoperability testing. She also addresses how the university is reaching out to schools and the local community to ensure the next generation of men and women is excited about careers in technology.
NVMe Poised To Revolutionize Solid-State Storage
April 21, 2014
File I/O stacks in operating systems are a great example for schools to teach Parkinson's Law, which says that software expands to use the resources available. Last time I counted, the current Linux stack with an attached SSD has a total of six or seven address translations. That's a huge software overhead, and you might be forgiven for wondering if the objective of the fastest I/O got lost in translation!
University of New Hampshire Plugfest Leads to Product Certification
April 1, 2014
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (NHU-IOL) provides interoperability and conformance testing for a wide range of network, telecommunications, storage products and technologies. Its recent NVM Express Interoperability Plugfest, which took place this past February, led to a number of devices finding certification through the New Hampshire group and NVM Express, a collection of more than than 90 companies that support non-volatile memory-based storage. NHU-IOL announced this week that products from Dell, Huawei, Intel, Mobiveil, PMC Sierra and Samsung...
Women In IT: The Next Generation
March 7, 2014
There's plenty of angst about the number of women pursuing IT careers. Some of it's warranted, some is overblown, as veteran IT pro Tammie Colivariti pointed out in a recent InformationWeek column, "Women, IT & The Outrage Machine." But one thing most can agree on is that bad PR is part of the problem. The tired stereotype of IT teams as a bunch of guys parked in front of monitors for 10 hours a day surrounded by desiccated pizza and...